Wednesday 22nd January

Back at sea again we headed south through the Bahama Channel, North of Cuba, skirted round the island and headed South East following the coastline of Cuba at a distance of about three miles, so we were able to see a lot of the geographical skyline of the island. By midnight we had closed on the eastern tip of the island whereupon we proceeded through the Windward Passage and then set a south easterly course to Haiti. We are currently in the Caribbean Sea with Cuba to the North of us, Haiti to the East and the Island of Jamaica to the South West of us. As we are now heading East again the clocks go forward one hour at 02:00 tonight, that’s going to come hard.

I went to a lecture on the restoration of the Wilts & Berks Canal and the Kennet & Avon which was quite interesting but Carol swerved it for some reason, can’t think why, but she did come to the following talk ‘Conquest of the Atlantic’ a 175 year history of the greatest and grandest trans-Atlantic liners.

Dinner was a formal night and surprise surprise, we have a new couple to replace Roger and Barbara, but we have not been in port, how come? The new couple, another Michael and Carol, were seated with a table that spoke only French and the only couple that could speak English got off in Fort Lauderdale. Faced with another two weeks of struggling with the little French they spoke, they requested a move and ended up with us. The phrase frying pan to the fire springs to mind.

Weather is continuing to warm up with temps around 24°C and lots of sun. No good will come of it, you mark my words.

Oh and one final thing today, a big welcome to Suzanne who has just registered on the blog. Suzanne your dad has forbidden me to report anything without his approval :-).